#The lightning thief spoilers

[artemx746]

"but now people are gonna be justifying Luke's actions!" there's always been people doing that. I'm one of them. And it was never because he was attractive

[number-onekidqueen]

Try not to cry impossible edition 😭😭

[garvalhaminho]

ok i'm bored so here's some pjo characters as "the land is inhospitable and so are we" lyrics :)

luke: "you believe me like a god/i betray you like i am"

percy: "i don't like my mind, i don't like being left alone in a room/with all its opinions about the things that i've done"

nico: "you're my best friend/now i've now one to tell/how i lost my best friend/the frost, it looks like we've been left in the attic/but you're not here to see/it's just witnessless me"

annabeth: "when memories snow/and cover up the driveway/i shovel all those memories/clear the path to drive to the store"

part 2, part 3

[localqueerappreciator]

OKAY

We GET IT. You want us to die, Uncle Rick. WHY ELSE WOULD YOU MAKE SURE PJO BECOMES SUCH AN AMAZING SHOW. Look I had my doubts. I scowled whenever I noticed a change (however, the everbeautiful Tumblr connected the dots for me to understand why change is sometimes better in scenes I wouldn't change). I WANTED there to be dumb kids shenanigans with auntie M, Crusty and Ares. I wanted to see him blow up cop cars and make it make sense to mortals that Percy is a kidnaped baby so he can scam them for money to go back. But despite that. DESPITE THAT. Rick and EVERYONE. every. Single. Person. That worked on the series in the most miniscule of ways. Did an amazing job, bringing our childhood to life. And I hope it will be a gateway for others to join. Titans know,the Movie That Shan't Be Mentioned was mine.

It's amazing. Backbiter tearing away fabric of space so Luke can be on the run again? A perfect thing for a son of hermes on the run. The way Chiron addressed Percy seeing Luke's point? Flawless. Percy not luring Ares to deep waters and standing on a wave but instead crashing him so he can run up to him, slash his ankle and get it over with? Slay. Lance Reddick as The Man? Lovely performance. Amazing. The pride and power that he displays.. I have clapped twice during the episode out of excitement and once as a paying tribute to his performance. Almost everything was great. Gabe being a shitty guy who gets divorced? Fuck yes. BEING STUPID ENOUGH TO ASK A *LAWYER*, WHOM HE JUST OFFENDED, IF HE KNOWS ABOUT LOCKPICKING? HAH! and stealing that package.. Yes we won't get the Poker Buddy statue that she sells, but it still displays what an asshole he is. STEALING A PACKAGE FROM A KID. HOW DARE YOU.

The only thing that didn't smell right to me was how quickly Percy got to New York from Montauk. He could've taken a taxi or something (I'm sure Tumblr will have a post that'll connect the dots for me again). But the cut just seemed just.. Not handled as best as it could've been but that's such a teeny tiny detail. Anyway. THE OLYMPUS WAS BEAUTIFUL. AND ZEUS IS A BITCHY BIG BROTHER. AS SOMEONE WHO WAS BEATEN UP BY THEIR BROTHER RECENTLY BECAUSE OF HIS PRIDE AND POWER I FEEL THINGS WHEN I WATCH HIM AND POSEIDON. And poseidon giving up instantly to save his SON? Forbidden son like Thalia? (yes I see you, playing to his ego, mwah)

Luke, constantly saying We because he just can't fathom that Percy would say no? Oh my heart. Yes there wasn't the scorpion I hoped for but they made up for it by making the scene amazing without it.

Annabeth being there to see him?? And choose Percy?? AND THE PACT? THE STRING W BEADS AND RING?

AND SALLY TAKING NOTES OF HIS NIGHTMARES W GRANDPA?? SO THEY CAN STUDY THEM AND FIGURE SHIT OUT? I love her. So much.

[bensolosbluesaber]

Okay, thoughts and spoilers for Percy Jackson episode 6 (We Take a Zebra to Vegas) below.

(Includes spoilers for the whole book also)

I took a few screen writing classes in college, and it's ruined how I see film and TV writing. So, here goes, my theories on the plot changes.

The 4 pearls instead of 3: They absolutely did this to show that Poseidon is thinking about Sally. I have no doubt that this is character development for Poseidon. Give him some good PR. Humanize him to Percy and us.

Second, I'm guessing we see another demigod in the Underworld who takes the 4th pearl. Remember Hades is missing his Helm of Darkness. If Luke puts a bug in his ear that it's Clarisse, he'll go after her.

Or, maybe Luke is there for some reason. They save Luke. It makes his betrayal all the worse. Having Luke on screen to react in the background is a good way to set up his plot twist without it seeming like a goofy afterthought. It's hard to do a plot twist when a character doesn't get a lot of screen time. It can feel very cheap.

The Summer Solstice dealine change: Again, I see this as a plot change for character purposes more than something to drastically affect the story. This setting forces Percy to actively choose to continue the whole quest. He's not just doing it to save his mom now. He's becoming a hero because he made that choice.

And I know everyone is freaking out about this, but honestly, it takes a little time to get an army assembled. It's a pretty reasonable change to just say Zeus and Poseidon didn't start amassing armies until after the Solstice.

This could also be a great way to get Luke into the Underworld setting. Oh, Percy failed? Luke volunteers under the guise of helping but really wants to be sure the Master Bolt gets to Tartarus.

Anyway, those are my theories. Very excited for the next 2 weeks.

[jellyfishsandwich2333]

My thoughts on the PJO Show episode 5:

Not my favorite so far in the way it adapted things, or just general content. I liked that they gave Grover something to do, and the Percabeth moments were on fire today. However, I really wish that they kept the golden spiders, as it sets up Annabeth's fear of them, and shows another side to her. The golden throne thing was very cool, but I think they got out of it a little bit too easily. I get that Haephestus is one of the better gods, but it just seems like they got the stakes so high only to drop them after two seconds. I don't think that Percy should have stayed a statue, obviously, but instead just keep the trap from the book.

5/10

Spoilers:

I really hope that Grover's guess for who the thief is isn't Luke. That reveal is one of my favorite moments from the book, and if they ruin it, it will leave a bad taste in my mouth for the rest of the show.

[mysteryhack]

would love to hear what other people think but every time I see an opportunity for Annabeth and Grover to bring up race and they just don’t I get disappointed. and there’s just so little mention of how these kids are treated due to their disabilities. I can infer but it feels like Disney is trying to make this story as apolitical as possible

like Annabeth is a black girl with ADHD and dyslexia. maybe some autism too. her mistreatment at the hands of her stepmom was possibly racially motivated, or if not it was because she’s disabled! and there’s no opportunity to dig into that, despite it being the big theme of the show, because it gets swept under the demigod label.

and I know this is what the books are like! I get it! but it’s 2023, we can’t be afraid to talk about race and disability!

[lynx-224]

“but they didn’t have luke say ‘sixty seconds percy’—” womp fucking womp

[mo-mode]

“But what does Grover bring to the table? He’s just the comedy relief character.” Grover is juggling the role of babysitter, mediator, and emotional manipulator and he cracks jokes too? Give him a BREAK

[crumpledroses]

Can't wait to see zeus go from "make sure i never see this one again" to offering percy immortality and then getting hit in the face with A Guide To Parenting And Other Family Issues By Perseus Jackson™

[artemx746]

crazy how even though I’ve read TLT dozens of times, watching the show I’m still acting like Luke won’t betray them, like he’ll stay at camp to watch annabeth grow up, like for whatever reason it’ll be different this time.

[wickedcriminal]

THE OL' SWTCHEROO

[c-herondale]

Obsessed with how Annabeth isn't spacial, she isn't a chosen one, she has no demigod magic powers, she is for all intents and purposes, a fairly normal girl.

But she poured her blood, sweat and tears into becoming the best warrior she could be. She trained hard for years because she knew she had disadvantages and she didn't want to be seen as weak.

She's literally known in Camp and by monsters like Alecto as the most powerful demigod alive and she doesn't have powers. It's almost as of girls don't need to be magical to be a hero!

[bogslob]

I was so sad when they cut Luke teaching Percy sword fighting from earlier episodes, one of the main reasons being because it would have meant that they couldn’t reasonably have Luke giving Percy instructions during the Ares fight, but having sword fighting lesson flashbacks during the fight was genius it tied everything together really well and made so much sense considering Luke hasn’t been in a huge portion of the show and your average viewer wouldn’t necessarily recognise his voice

[mysteryhack]

I’m not a fan of the most recent PJO episode. it’s pretty clear they were drawing on the metoo movement and feminist interpretations of the Medusa myth… and then she got beheaded anyway. I know that’s what happens in the book, but at least that focused more on her being a monster to be killed than a victim of circumstance.

and they signaled to her being queer too? like it’s not hard to read her as a bi woman who got disfigured by a misogynistic/homophobic woman and they still made her the monster of the week. I’d hoped for more.

[readerconfused]

Man these last few days have been so stressful that my boy has aged 3 years